‘Pregnancy lie’ woman caught trying to steal newborn from hospital

A woman faked her pregnancy for nine months before trying to steal one from an NZ hospitalWALTRAUD GRUBITZSCH

It is only normal for a woman to prepare for a new baby for the previous nine months.

But a Fijian-Indian woman in New Zealand managed to prepare her family so thoroughly for the impending birth that they had no idea she was not actually pregnant.

Her deception culminated in the attempted theft of a newborn baby from an Auckland maternity hospital, She managed to deceive a hospital staff member into thinking she was a new mother, and persuaded her to hand over a two-day-old baby .

It was only when Neha Narayan, 24, tried to leave the hospital with the baby that suspicious staff and the baby’s parents confronted her.